His only rival, Penny Mordaunt, conceded and withdrew.
LONDON — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak was set to become Britain’s next prime minister after the governing Conservative Party chose him as its leader on Monday in the hope that he will be a safe pair of hands to guide the country at a time of economic and political turbulence.
“We now need stability and unity, and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together,” he said. The party is now desperate for someone to right the ship after months of chaos — both during Truss’ short term and at the end of Johnson’s. Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said Sunak’s government faces a long list of challenges: weakened public finances, a worsening economic outlook and a wave of strikes amid record-high inflation. Bale called Sunak “rather more competent” than Truss, but said the Conservative Party was “by no means out of the woods yet.”
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